Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar Cover
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Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar

Richard Brautigan

An omnibus edition of three counterculture classics by Richard Brautigan that embody the spirit of the 1960s. Trout Fishing in America is by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's rural waterways; In Watermelon Sugar expresses the mood of a...

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The MeatEater Podcast

It was described as a magical book, highly requested in the American library system, despite not being about trout fishing itself.

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And Yanni mentioned to me that part of their plan while they're driving around fishing is to read Trout Fishing in America.

— Episode: Ep. 185: Tom McGuane On The Beauty of No...

Episode: Ep. 185: Tom McGuane On The Beauty of Not Knowing

It was described as a magical book, highly requested in the American library system, despite not being about trout fishing itself.

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And Yanni mentioned to me that part of their plan while they're driving around fishing is to read Trout Fishing in America.

Oh yeah. And I said to Yanni, well, you know, it doesn't really have anything to do with trout fishing. And he said, they know.

Yeah, it's just a great book.

One of the most requested books in the entire American library system. It's right up there with Huckleberry Finn or something.

Episode: Ep. 092: John Gierach

The book was discussed, with the host noting that it was enjoyable at the time, but he was not sure if it held up as well with age and experience.

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Did you at the time, were you reading like Trout Fishing in America by Brodigan?

Well, you know, I always liked Brodigan. He might be a little thin in retrospect, but I liked him at the time.

But Brodigan's still funny though, man. He is still funny.

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